List of Japanese snacks
This is a list of Japanese snacks (お菓子, okashi) and finger foods. It includes both brand name and generic snacks.
Types
Anko, or sweet bean paste
Anko is a kind of sweet bean paste.[1] Anko is mainly eaten during the afternoon green tea time in Japan. School students eat it after school, at home.
- Botamochi
- Daifuku
- Ichigodaifuku - Daifuku with strawberry
- Dorayaki
- Manjū
- Monaka
- Imagawayaki
- Kusa mochi
- Taiyaki
- Yōkan
- Ichigo daifuku
- Cut surface of Taiyaki.
- Yōkan with chestnut.
Bean
Beans with salt are mainly taken with beer in the evening.
- Edamame
- Soramame - boiled broad bean
- Ikarimame - fried broad bean
- Soramame
- Ikarimame
Bread/Wheat Flour
- generic
- Karintō – deep-fried brown sugar snack
- Monjayaki
- Okonomiyaki
- Takoyaki
- Karintō in bottles
- brand
- Hello Panda
- Kappa Ebisen
- Koala's March
- Pocky – known as Mikado in Europe
- Pretz
- Yan Yan
- A package of regular Yan Yan
Candy
- generic
- Ramune candy
- brand
- Botan/Tomoe Ame
- Calpis Candy
- Chelsea (candy) – made by Meiji Confectionery in Japan
- Cubyrop
- gumi 100
- Hi-chew
- Milky (candy)
- Pinky
- Poifull
- Puccho
- Puré gumi candy - gummy candy with fruit purée made by KANRO Co., Ltd.
- Milky (candy)
- Puccho
Chewing gum
- Black Black
- Fuwarinka
- Kiss Mint and Watering Kissmint
- Let's
- Plus X
- Poscam
- Pure White
- Sweetie
- whatta – chewing gum by Meiji Confectionary
- Xylish
- Yuzu
Chocolate
- generic
- Matcha chocolate - chocolate containing matcha
- brand
- Apollo (chocolate) - chocolate in shape of Apollo command module
- Choco Baby
- Choco Ball
- Crunky
- Crunky kids
- DARS (chocolate)
- E-Royce'
- Every Burger[2]
- Kinoko no yama - known as CHOCOROOMS in US
- Koara no māchi
- Ghana
- Pocky – known as Mikado in Europe
- Pucca Chocolate
- Takenoko no sato - known as CHOCOCONES in US
- Toppo
- Apollo (chocolate)
- Choco Baby
- Choco Ball
- DARS (chocolate)
- Takenoko no sato
Ice cream & shaved ice
- generic
- Green tea Kakigōri(left) and strawberry flavoured Kakigōri(right).
- Mochi ice cream
- brand
- Choco Monaka Jumbo, manufactured by Morinaga & Company.
- Panapp [3]
- Yukimi Daifuku
- Choco Monaka Jumbo
- Yukimi Daifuku
Potato
- generic
- Ishiyakiimo - roasted sweet potato
- Kenpi
- Ishiyakiimo
- brand
- Bōkun Habanero
- Jagarico, manufactured by Calbee.
- Kara Mucho and Suppa Mucho
- Kataage Potato
- Pote Long, manufactured by Morinaga & Company.
- Wasabeef - wasabi & beef flavoured potato chips
- Ototo - potato snack in shape of seafood.
- Jagarico
- Pote Long
- Wasabeef
Rice
- generic
- Onigiri, or rice ball can be eaten both as a snack and as a meal, by modern Japanese people. In Sengoku period, samurai ate large rice balls as a field ration during the war.
- Small Onigiris convenient for snacks
- In Sengoku period and Edo period, Onigiris were often wrapped in bamboo skin when they were carried.Bamboo skin has an antibacterial effect and keeps rice balls longer.
- Modern Onigiris wrapped in a small, transparent plastic bag.
Rice based snacks are known as beika (米菓).
- Agemochi
- Arare
- Botamochi
- Daifuku
- Dango
- Kaki no tane
- Kaminari okoshi
- Kusa mochi
- Senbei
- Hanami Dango
- Kaminari okoshi
- brand
See also
References
External links
- Media related to Snack foods of Japan at Wikimedia Commons
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